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Flashlights are garbage if the killer is competent
Yea, they can save teammates. But seriously, any good killer can just see that there is a flashlight in the lobby and become cautious.
How about pallet blinds? If the killer has no headset, they are amazing. Problem is, most do.
And if you think that they work against a good killer, then try them in kill your friends against me, and I will show you how a competent killers handles your cute little toy. Stop using clueless noobs that have just installed the game to prove your point. All it takes is one mouse turn and your so called op weapon can no longer save any teammate.
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Flashlights are fine as they are, they dont need a buff.
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Flashlight is a killer item
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I agree with this, flashlights are fine. They are a weak item when compared to medkits and toolboxes, but they arent meant to provide a massive advantage to begin with, they are just meant for having fun really. I think people forget that things can be weak but still can be fun, and that's why DBD is about, having fun.
Also against some killers (Artist, Hag, Wraith, etc.), it can be a valuable tool to deal with their powers. And with Residual Manifest, you can apply Blindness to the killer which has won me a few games here and there. They can serve as good utility and I feel like everyone kind of ignores that.
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i mean they are stronger than keys and maps.. or maybe they are below maps, but nothing beats the keys XD
the main reason for flashlights throwned upon are tbecause of how (most) players use em anyway.
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Keys have really good aura reading, they can make mind-gaming impossible and lead to longer chases.
Maps, with certain addons, can heavily prevent 3-gening, they can also help find important things like Hex Totems or Dull Totems to Boon (thus not wasting more time).
I consider Keys and Maps to be among the most underrated items in the game, you never see them yet they can do so much for the team.
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when i was new i used to run keys and maps often for aura reading ^^ but now that i have so many perks to do that i kinda only use toolboxes and medkits.
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Blinding at pallets is always a bad idea
You lose distance doing it
It's good for points/challenges though or if you're not the one being chased.
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in some instances when the killer corners you in a pallet break, a flashlight blind can get you out of the corner especially if the killer let's you chain-blind them. the flashlight blind at pallets only works because killer is deaf during the blind, but some of the updates break flashlights and then blind no longer deafen the killer so the flashlight becomes useless at pallets.
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Have Flashlights ever deafened the killer?
I know they added a sound effect that plays when you get blinded but I don't recall ever being deafened by it. Flashbangs are the only exception at one point they had a slight deafen sound effect they don't know
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they deafen you but sometimes bvhr spaghetti code breaks flashlight blinds in some patches and they become useless at pallets(against good killers that use sound).
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yea people with flashlights are as bad as people with selfcare sometimes.
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